An Urbanicity Alert: REAL CORP 2018
REAL CORP 2018 - Expanding Cities – Diminishing Space
Are “Smart Cities” the solution or part of the problem of continuous urbanisation around the globe?
23rd International Conference on Urban Planning
and Regional Development in the Information Society
4-6 APRIL 2018
TU WIEN, AUSTRIA
We are glad to inform you that our international reviewer team and programme committee selected 107 abstracts of participants from 31 countries for presentation at REAL CORP 2018.
You can find the list of conference presentations here:
http://www.corp.at/Download/CORP2018/realcorp2018programme.pdf
All list updates as well as every further version until the finished conference programme will be available through this link. We are convinced that REAL CORP 2018 is going to provide a very interesting programme.
Conference registration
If you have not registered for conference participation yet, you still have the chance to profit from the early bird registration fees. Early bird registration is open until 31 January.
Registration at http://my.corp.at
If your institution wants to send a larger number of conference participants, please get into contact with us via e-mail (office@corp.at) to arrange individual conditions..
The conference at a glance
REAL CORP 2018
Expanding Cities – Diminishing Space
Are “Smart Cities” the solution or part of the problem
of continuous urbanisation around the globe?
4-6 APRIL 2018
TU WIEN, VIENNA; AUSTRIA
The world’s total population is expected to hit the 10 billion point in the 2060s, more than 70 % living in urban areas. Cities are not only growing in population, but are expanding in area. Even with constant number of inhabitants there is a demand for more space. As a consequence cities also grow into 3rd dimension: “up into the sky” and “going underground”. Many cities kind of expand in time, become “cities that never sleep”, extending their urban activities to 24 hours per day all the year round – 24/365. Even in countries and regions with constant or declining population numbers, it is still the cities that attract people.
While the “hunger” in the literal sense for food and resources is growing, the “spaces in between”, especially agricultural land, but also natural retreats and buffer zones are diminishing. These aspects of city expansion do not only lead to massive changes all over the world, they also arise multiple challenges, chances and risks which have to be dealt with in planning processes.
Smart urban technologies promise a contribution to the solution of multiple challenges we are facing in cities. However, these technologies are a precondition for the management and also for the growth of bigger and bigger urban agglomerations. Is this development sustainable? How resilient are huge urban systems based on highly complex technology?
An essential aspect is to overcome “disciplinary approaches” and having a holistic view of the city – an approach that urban planners claim to have been using forever. With all the technology in focus of course the goals of sustainability and resilience remain as important as they have always been. Cities are mainly about people and not about technology, so it is still “quality of life” that should be in focus.
REAL CORP 2018 is going to show the current state of the art as well as to present projects and approaches for the use of future technology.
It would be a great honour to be able to welcome you to REAL CORP 2018 in April in Vienna. All information on REAL CORP 2018 can be found at www.corp.at as usual.
Conference Timeline
REAL CORP 2018 takes place from 4 to 6 April 2018. The timeline will be as follows:
Day 0 – Tuesday, 3 April
approx. 19:00 Informal Welcome Reception, Ice Breaking
Day 1 – Wednesday, 4 April
09:00-10:30 Registration, Morning Coffee
10:30-13:00 Opening and Keynote Speeches
14:00-16.00 Parallel Sessions (Presentations, Workshops)
16:30-18:00 Parallel Sessions (Presentations, Workshops)
afterwards guided city tour, informal evening get-together (optional)
Day 2 – Thursday, 5 April
09:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions (Presentations, Workshops)
11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions (Presentations, Workshops)
14:00-16.30 Parallel Sessions (Presentations, Workshops)
16:30-18:00 Parallel Sessions (Presentations, Workshops)
16:00 Book presentation “Underground Space” by Han Admiraal and Antonia Cornaro
afterwards Official Evening Reception
Day 3 – Friday, 6 April
09:00-10:30 Parallel Sessions (Presentations, Workshops)
11:00-12:30 Parallel Sessions (Presentations, Workshops)
14:00-16.30 Parallel Sessions (Presentations, Workshops)
16:30-17:00 Summary, Final Discussion, Outlook, Farewell
All time specifications include lunch and coffee breaks and may be subject to minor changes.
Co-operation partners
REAL CORP 2018 is a co-operation of
- CORP – Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning, http://www.corp.at
- Vienna University of Technology, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, http://www.geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at/
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Dept. of Town Quarter Planning
- ISOCARP – International Society of City and Regional Planners, http://www.isocarp.at
It would be a great honour to be able to welcome you to REAL CORP 2018 in April in Vienna. All further information on REAL CORP 2018 can be found at http://www.corp.at as usual.
With best regards from Vienna,
Manfred Schrenk, Clemens Beyer and the REAL CORP Team
